Undergraduate Project Topics | Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate Research and Design projects are offered as part of BTP and SLP credits (available only for fourth year B.Tech and DD students). Please find a link to the allotment rules here. Please contact the respective faculty for more information. Faculty can add new projects to this list by accessing this link (after logging in with their LDAP credentials).

Name of Faculty: Sayantan Dutta
Title	Floated On
Quantifying dynamics of drug resistant colonies using advanced image processing and computational models	27 Feb 2024

Name of Faculty: Partha Sarathi Goswami
Title	Floated On
CFD analysis for improving freeze-dryer design	11 Jan 2024

Name of Faculty: Sandip Roy
Title	Floated On
Enabling Effective Industrial Risk Governance	10 Jan 2024
Performance and Strategy for R&D in the Indian Chemical Industry	02 Jan 2024
Prediction of Controlled Amorphous and Crystalline Drug Release	02 Aug 2023
Risk-based layout of multi-level process plant	02 Aug 2023
Preventive Maintenance Scheduling using Markov Chain Analysis	24 Jul 2022
Supercritical Fluid-based Study of Molten Sulphur Penetration in Ceramic Materials	18 Jul 2022
On Assessing the Role of MSMEs in the Indian Chemical Industry	26 Jul 2021

Name of Faculty: Ateeque Malani
Title	Floated On
Computational screening of Porous Materials for Adsorbed Natural Gas	04 Jan 2024
Microscopy-guided first-principles-based modeling of optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols	15 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: Jason R. Picardo, Akkihebbal K Suresh
Title	Floated On
Modeling dispersion of a gas pulse in a TAP reactor	03 Jan 2024

Name of Faculty: Akkihebbal K Suresh
Title	Floated On
Precise kinetic characterization of CO2 reduction catalysts by Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) technique.	02 Jan 2024
Carbon capture materials by flame synthesis	28 Dec 2021

Name of Faculty: Yogendra Shastri
Title	Floated On
Automating institute time table and room allocation	02 Jan 2024
Studying global water sustainability using an integrated model	15 Jul 2022
Desiging for circular bioeconomy transition	15 Jul 2022

Name of Faculty: Jyoti Seth
Title	Floated On
Simulating the Rheology of Particulate Networks in Complex Fluids	02 Jan 2024

Name of Faculty: Sonali Das
Title	Floated On
Catalyst and process development for Sustainable Plasma-catalytic Methane Valorization	01 Jan 2024
Catalyst development for sustainable conversion of CO2 to chemicals	31 Dec 2023

Name of Faculty: Madhu Vinjamur
Title	Floated On
Drying of thin multicomponent polymer films	01 Jan 2024

Name of Faculty: Jason R. Picardo
Title	Floated On
Global dynamics of glaciers	01 Jan 2024
Liquid-liquid counter-current flow in microchannels	26 Jul 2023

Name of Faculty: Ojus Mohan
Title	Floated On
Developing a Comprehensive Protocol for Assessing Modified Catalyst Stability Using Density Functional Theory	01 Jan 2024

Name of Faculty: Amol Subhedar
Title	Floated On
Minimization of discrete errors in two-phase flow modeling with unequal densities	01 Jan 2024
Analysis of discrete Boltzmann equation	29 Jul 2023
No-slip boundary condition for moving boundary in two-phase flow	28 Jul 2023

Name of Faculty: Abhijit Majumder, Venkat Gundabala
Title	Floated On
Cancer Tumours and CAF interactions	31 Dec 2023

Name of Faculty: Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
Title	Floated On
A microfluidic device for deciphering bacterial motion in presence of nanoparticles for household water treatment systems	29 Dec 2023
Development of polymeric implant for nanoparticle mediated drug delivery in pancreatic cancer	29 Dec 2023
Chemical sensor development for water contaminants and technology for their removal	29 Dec 2023
Engineering nanoparticle size and shape: Multiscale modeling, simulation and applications	29 Dec 2023
An Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring System with Sensors, for Water Quality Parameters	28 Jul 2022
Modeling of a solar photocatalytic reactor using fluid flow and mass-energy conservation equations	01 Jan 2022
Developing population balance models of particle size distribution of polymers in a reactor	01 Jan 2022
Modeling adsorption and reaction of contaminants by nanoparticle impregnated polymeric fibers	31 Jul 2021

Name of Faculty: Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
Title	Floated On
Controlled Drug Delivery: Experiments	23 Dec 2023
Coating Flows in Viscoelastic Fluids: Experiments	23 Dec 2023
Coating flows in Viscoelastic Fluids:Theory	23 Dec 2023

Name of Faculty: Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
Title	Floated On
Optimizing the adhesion of PE-grafted silsesquioxane to metals	23 Dec 2023
Ion containing multiblock copolymers	23 Dec 2023
Microplastics: Formation and effect on cells	23 Dec 2023

Name of Faculty: Pramod P Wangikar
Title	Floated On
GCMS-based metabolomics studies.	07 Aug 2023
Plastic degrading bacteria.	07 Aug 2023
Metabolic modeling of Pre-Diabetes	30 Dec 2021
New biological insights by mapping of metabolomics data to metabolic pathways and by generating qualitative models	13 Jan 2021
Deep learning methods for metabolite identification from high resolution LC-MS data.	13 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: Hemant Nanavati
Title	Floated On
Data Refinement and Modeling of Elasticity of Solid Propellant Matrix	05 Aug 2023

Name of Faculty: Mani Bhushan
Title	Floated On
Creation of pollution sources database using NLP based Machine Learning approaches	02 Aug 2023
Process data digitization using low cost software and hardware interventions	02 Aug 2023

Name of Faculty: Abhijit Majumder
Title	Floated On
Development of a micorlfuidic chip to study cell migration	29 Jul 2023
Development of a multi-dimensional concentration gradient generator	31 Dec 2022
Developing Brain Tumor on Chip	31 Dec 2022
Replicative senescence in human mesenchymal stem cells.	26 Jul 2022

Name of Faculty: Supreet Saini
Title	Floated On
How do new species form? (experiments)	26 Jul 2023
Codon usage in membrane proteins.	11 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: Jayesh Bellare
Title	Floated On
UTM for soft solids	06 Jan 2023
In silico experiments on human bone remodeling to explore the effects of Romosozumab treatment for metabolic diseases	31 Jul 2021

Name of Faculty: Sarika Mehra
Title	Floated On
Genome Scale Flux Balance Metabolic Models for recombinant CHO cells	04 Aug 2022

Name of Faculty: Rochish Madhukar Thaokar
Title	Floated On
Understanding electroporation using simulations	25 Jul 2022
Effect of electric field on neurons	25 Dec 2021
Development of a quadrupolar trap for investigating ice formation and cloud electrification	15 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: K V Venkatesh
Title	Floated On
Modeling immune response in diabetic patients to evaluate effects of co-morbidity during covid infection	05 Jan 2022
Modeling the disease state of fibrosis	26 Jul 2021

Name of Faculty: Ravindra D Gudi
Title	Floated On
Dynamics of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 (for only Joint Masters Program Students with WashU)	05 Jan 2022

Name of Faculty: Bharatkumar Suthar
Title	Floated On
Modeling and simulation li-ion battery with Si/Graphite anode	30 Dec 2021
Modeling diffusion in li-ion battery active materials	30 Jul 2021
Li-ion Battery: Modeling impedance response	13 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: Ganesh A Viswanathan
Title	Floated On
Transition of spatiotemporal patterns in packed-bed reactors	27 Dec 2021
Decoding edges in state transition graphs	13 Jan 2021

Name of Faculty: Rochish Madhukar Thaokar, Y. S. Mayya
Title	Floated On
Development of quadrupole and acoustic traps to levitate charged drops, rain drops, cough droplets and pollen to study their dynamics, instability and interaction with aerosols for environmental and health effects applications. (Wash U programme)	24 Dec 2021

Name of Faculty: Chandra Venkataraman
Title	Floated On
Filter-based Correction Algorithm for Aerosol Optical Properties in Support of the COALESCE network	13 Jan 2021
Atmospheric chemistry of organic aerosols: Insights from aerosol mass spectrometry	13 Jan 2021